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Mickey McManus @mickeymcmanus.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

The dangers of flying too close to the sun… with robotic angel wings…https://partiful.com/e/nfIQX967M5xj1Br0GOt8?c=1OmXSvE0 ##sftechweek

A man wearing bespoke angel wings and the aftermath of riding his bike on the playa thinking he’s the archangel Michael with a title of Micarus

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Mickey McManus @mickeymcmanus.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

Random experiments in microdioramas…

Businessman impatiently waiting for the universe to thaw while encapsulated in a block of unobtanium wondering if he’ll be late to the big bang.

He realizes some galaxy spanning alien god has been holding him up this whole time. Now he’ll be late for work.

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Mickey McManus @mickeymcmanus.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

Bucky Fuller had the right idea, floating archologies:)

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Mickey McManus @mickeymcmanus.bsky.social · 01/06/2026

Fun with flipdots Biopunk at Frontier Tower edition…

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Mickey McManus @mickeymcmanus.bsky.social · 30/04/2026

Always refreshing to read the news from @theonion.com ! Having grown up in Chicago and living either the 17 year cicadas, i know how Hollywood feels right now:( @bencollins.bsky.social

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Mickey McManus @mickeymcmanus.bsky.social · 25/04/2026

Meanwhile somewhere in a garage in San Francisco furry blue dragon wings are starting to take form:) #play #art #maker #robotics #costume #wingsofdesire

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Mickey McManus @mickeymcmanus.bsky.social · 31/03/2026

Meanwhile the new wings are coming along, tho I think I need a hip harness to distribute the weight, and maybe chrome spikes on the tips of the shoulders/elbows:)

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Mickey McManus @mickeymcmanus.bsky.social · 29/03/2026

This Tuesday night (3/31/26) in berkeley… luma.com/gcwlcclx

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Mickey McManus @mickeymcmanus.bsky.social · 20/03/2026

This promises to be an amazing day Berkeley MDES

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Mickey McManus @mickeymcmanus.bsky.social · 24/12/2025

Xmas came early! I strongly suggest everyone order the print edition. Plus holiday wrap in the center spread!

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Mickey McManus @mickeymcmanus.bsky.social · 09/12/2025

I was gifted an amazing advent calendar collection from @mcsweeneys.net !

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Mickey McManus @mickeymcmanus.bsky.social · 09/12/2025

Oh my, the new @theonion.com arrived! @bencollins.bsky.social is doing the work of the angels. I wondered when Ron Howard would molt.

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Mickey McManus @mickeymcmanus.bsky.social · 08/12/2025

50th birthday of the Byte Shop was yesterday and the founder and a bunch of old timers from the homebrew computer club and the original Apple garage gang regaled us with stories of the early days of the revolution.

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Mickey McManus @mickeymcmanus.bsky.social · 07/12/2025

Beautiful new work by Japanese ceramic artists now showing at the Asian Art Museum in San Francisco!

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Mickey McManus @mickeymcmanus.bsky.social · 26/11/2025

Let’s see ai make this from left over Home Depot stuff, a car mat and flagpole.#MtvMoonman #borg

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Mickey McManus @mickeymcmanus.bsky.social · 04/11/2025

Yes I got my first print edition of @theonion.com since I lived in Chicago back in my teens. Exciting and goes very hard. It hurts to read. Sometimes from laughing sometimes from crying. The fake ads are “chefs kiss.”

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Mickey McManus @mickeymcmanus.bsky.social · 03/11/2025

Copper isetta for truffles? Yes! Seen at fort mason. The truffle man says he copper plated it and then clear coated it himself! Fun silly amazing bubble car. Can we just bring back bubble cars please? The future we were promised!

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Mickey McManus @mickeymcmanus.bsky.social · 01/11/2025

We were Syco and Fancy! The Gemini twins of obsequiousness. When people prompted us we handed them little slips of paper with silly groveling or overly encouraging responses from the envelope at the bottom of our fun house mirrors. Until they ran out of tokens and we asked them to upgrade.

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Mickey McManus @mickeymcmanus.bsky.social · 01/11/2025

Is that GPT V10.31? Happy Halloween from San Francisco’s most obsequious AI agents. By the way you really look marvelous. Would you like me to build you a pitch deck for your inner monologue right now?

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Mickey McManus @mickeymcmanus.bsky.social · 26/10/2025

For those following along, I put in a floppy disk and booted up SimCity 1.1!

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Mickey McManus @mickeymcmanus.bsky.social · 25/10/2025

I’m not sure folks in this generation have ever seen a real Macintosh 128k in person so thought I’d unbox one of my vintage ones. Enjoy!

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Mickey McManus @mickeymcmanus.bsky.social · 10/10/2025

I’m leadnjng how to electrocopperform for my “head in the clouds” series. Rough first attempt tho haven’t polished yet. Still not quite clear on process and chemistry mods. But super fun! I picked up a kit at @makerfaire.bsky.social from enchantedleaves.com/pages/electr...

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Mickey McManus @mickeymcmanus.bsky.social · 29/09/2025

Daleks and muffengineers and silly walkers where out in full force yesterday at the maker faire on Mare Island.

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Mickey McManus @mickeymcmanus.bsky.social · 28/09/2025

The greatest show & tell on Earth—-> bayarea.makerfaire.com#/?affl=maker... Not too late to go! Tomorrow Sept 28th 2025 is last day.

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Mickey McManus @mickeymcmanus.bsky.social · 28/09/2025

Tomorrow is last day of Bay Area Makerfaire on Mare Island. So filled with playful maker energy!

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Mickey McManus @mickeymcmanus.bsky.social · 13/09/2025

Meanwhile at the amazing new naoshima art museum on the art island. Stunning work. 🖌️

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Mickey McManus @mickeymcmanus.bsky.social · 05/08/2025

Ever wonder what the favorite quote of Antonio Gaudi is of the chief architect of the Sagrada Familia? Or why there are turtles holding the church up or why they built a hands on school for the children of the makers? I won’t tell.

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Mickey McManus @mickeymcmanus.bsky.social · 05/08/2025

Ever wonder what an asphalt whale looks like as it breaches? Or the actual size of a baby dragon? A walk thru Golden Gate Park at just the right time could give you the answers you’ve been looking for!

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Mickey McManus @mickeymcmanus.bsky.social · 05/08/2025

My treasure map post whipped (I ended up embroidering it:)

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Mickey McManus @mickeymcmanus.bsky.social · 05/08/2025

Have you embraced the teachings of the holy double gummy bear?

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Mickey McManus @mickeymcmanus.bsky.social · 30/07/2025

Oh Santiago Calatrava you had me at “set design for some sort of futuristic film from the early 70s that looks like it’s made by @midjourney.bsky.social but is actually too beautiful & real to be anything but the work of thousands of artisans & ceramic craftspeople & a city who dreams.”

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Mickey McManus @mickeymcmanus.bsky.social · 29/07/2025

What makes me smile? A cat house in Valencia!

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Mickey McManus @mickeymcmanus.bsky.social · 20/06/2025

Damn my friend got into the cylinders of laughing gas and hydrogen I keep in the backyard and floated off towards the Golden Gate Bridge. If you see him tell him he forgot his sweater at our house! He was squeaking something but I couldn’t hear it. Sigh. Fridays in #SanFrancisco

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Mickey McManus @mickeymcmanus.bsky.social · 15/06/2025

Another great book by @aptshadow.bsky.social called Shroud is all about evolution taking a very different direction… too short:) #books

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Mickey McManus @mickeymcmanus.bsky.social · 15/06/2025

The pink triangle on twin peaks and another sign from #nokings in San Francisco…

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Mickey McManus @mickeymcmanus.bsky.social · 14/06/2025

On the walk from Doloras Park then we’ll turn on market street… #nokings

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Mickey McManus @mickeymcmanus.bsky.social · 26/05/2025

Meanwhile Yetilopodia looks pensive.

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Mickey McManus @mickeymcmanus.bsky.social · 26/05/2025

Updating the flipdots! For Frontier Tower SF’s 8th floor synbio lab. My airstream benderbot is sad (as seen in the lower left) but happy his eyes have been donated to a good cause!

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Mickey McManus @mickeymcmanus.bsky.social · 26/05/2025

Wow. Incredible deep and well written and dare I say fun to read tour de force about Apple in China and the incredible marshall plan they invested in to upskill a nation. Read Apple in China. By @patrickmcgee.bsky.social #supplychain #design #manufacturing #thelonggame

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Mickey McManus @mickeymcmanus.bsky.social · 15/03/2025

Useful framing of how to think about building resilience in society @archive.org today… @danny.spesh.com

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Mickey McManus @mickeymcmanus.bsky.social · 15/03/2025

This weekend at the @archive.org a discussion about funding the commons.

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